Weekly Recap #8 Memorial Day Weekend Family and Friends Fun
Memorial Day Weekend is best spent among those you love. Family and friends. Barbeque and remembrance. It is a peculiar thing, to witness a country mourn and forget in the same breath. Distractions and scavenger hunts to entertain us. This Memorial Day weekend, the grills lit early, flags fluttered across suburbia, and the sales were […]
Weekly Recap #6 The Sedition Act: When Power Fears the Truth
1918 Sedition Act is not about Patriotism, it’s about Being Silenced By Walden WrightMay 16, 2025 | Do What MATAs On this day in 1918, Congress passed a law that made it a federal crime to speak out against the United States government, the Constitution, or the military during wartime. That law was called the […]
Weekly Recap #5 Glendale Cinco de Mayo Shooting, firing at FEMA, purging Patriots
The firing at FEMA and Purging Trans Folks are more signs of a weak President By Walden WrightDo What MATAs | Friday Reflection We began this week with music. Cinco de Mayo parades, classrooms draped in posters for Teacher Appreciation Week, a few flags, a few fireworks. But as the days passed, the sound shifted. […]
Weekly Recap #4: The Photoshop Deep Fake, Rachel Maddow, and Colonization in 2025
This week’s weekly recap on Photoshop Deep Fake – craziness, Rachel Maddow for the win, and Colonization is the fail, this week is otherwise known as: The Facepalm Heard ‘Round the Lake By Walden WrightFriday Recap | May 3, 2025 This week, I stepped away from the noise and walked down to the edge of […]
Porch Talk #7: The Grifting of America Part 2
Porch Talk Grit is back with more on the Grifting of America with Liberty Lane & Colonel Ezra Stone “100 Days In — and the Fear Fair is still rolling.” “Silence is no longer passive. It’s an accomplice.”— Colonel Ezra Stone, Ret. We’re a hundred days into Trump’s second term, and the smoke hasn’t cleared […]
Weekly Recap #3 from Walden: A Strong Constitutional Stand Against Authoritarianism
A Constitutional stand on DEI, Trans Rights, and the Courts: This Week’s Fight for Freedom The System Held — For Now Walden Wright’s Friday Reflection on Liberty, Law, and the Fragile Line Between Them We do not often get victories in the open. More often, resistance feels like erosion slowed—quiet, procedural, half-wins that come not […]
Walden’s Weekly Recap #2: When Silence Becomes Complicity – Protests, Power, and the Courts
The Real Cost of Quiet: Protests, Judges, and the Fight for Our Future in Federal Courts This week the system said the quiet part out loud. This week, I found myself staring at three headlines and a TikTok clip of the Secretary of Education mistaking “AI” for “A1 steak sauce.” I wish I could say […]
Walden’s Weekly Recap #1: The Cracks of Treason Are Forming
The Cracks Are Forming: Historical Weekly Recap #1 from Walden Wright on Free Speech, Tariffs, and the Erosion of Democracy This weekly recap reminded me of a phrase I once read carved into a war memorial: “Freedom doesn’t fade. It fractures.” 🕯️ That line’s been ringing in my ears ever since Amber Ruffin was quietly […]
Shingles Dementia, Health Agency Firings, Trump Tariffs Fallout on What MATAs This Week
What MATAs This Week (So Far): Fires, Fear, and Focus 🔥🧠📉 If you’ve been refreshing the blog all week wondering,“Where’s the Monday drop? It was election day too! (I was on TikTok) Where’s Joe Bob with his Bullshit-O-Meter about the firings? Where’s Liberty with her porch wisdom about the shingles article?” You weren’t alone. We’ve been […]